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A migration to Texas, done the Toyota Way

August 12, 2017 05:00 AM
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Toyota in Texas
The newly opened headquarters of Toyota Motor North America is Texas-sized in many respects.
  • Size: 2.1 million square feet of buildings on 100 acres
  • Employees: 4,200
  • Economic impact: $7.2 billion
Materials used
  • 142,500 yards of poured concrete (the length of 475 AT&T Stadiums, home of the Dallas Cowboys)
  • 17,000 tons of reinforcing steel (the amount in 1,700 Dallas city buses)
  • 12 acres of glass (enough to make 49,925 Tacoma windshields)
  • 1,220 tons of Texas limestone (the weight of 340 Tundra 1794 Editions)
Source: Toyota, Grant Thornton
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PLANO, Texas — The grand opening ceremony for Toyota's new North American headquarters featured aerial dancers twirling atop polarized glass high above the 100-acre campus in a carefully choreographed mix of precision and risk.

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